Planning system is unfit for purpose in light of 2030 renewable energy targets, RenewableNI says.
"To reach 80% by 2030, we need to double our renewable capacity and we're not developing those projects. So if business as usual continues, you will get nowhere near those targets.
"In order to get to those targets it's going to take a £1bn investment in Northern Ireland. In other countries across the world they are making significant strides to actually push forward with planning to ensure that the projects are achieved. Here, we're not able to do that." Strategic Power Projects has more than €1bn worth of projects in the pipeline, with one project taking just five months from application to approval, in accordance with the time limits of the Republic's system. The solar and battery-storage specialist's managing Director Paul Carson said such certainty was not available in Northern Ireland."So when a developer is taking an investment decision, the developer will always go to where the certainty is, where the confidence is.
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